A battle among a new generation of Real IRA members to control its drugs trade, racketeering, and money-laundering operations may have lead to the killing of dissident republican Aidan O’Driscoll, garda sources believe.

Gardaí are questioning a man about a spate of brutal machete attacks in Cork city.

Size: 133 sq m (1,425 sq ft)

The slopes of Cork city’s northside breed character.

Bishop John Buckley couldn’t live in the Bishop’s Palace. He would feel cut off, he tells Claire O’Sullivan

SOME things haven’tchanged at the basketball.

Patricia Burns’ paintings of her daily route home evoke the cold, gloomy beauty of Cork’s suburban sprawl,says Tina O’Sullivan

TEAM Montenotte Hotel Cork will bid for their fourth national cup title when they take on DCU Mercy in tomorrow’s women’s Superleague final and if they succeed, it will be sensational after losing five of their superstars from last year.

MEMBERS of the public who were collecting emergency supplies of water from tankers at Blackpool Shopping Centre on Cork city’s northside yesterday were admirably level-headed about the whole affair, in spite of their concerns about getting through up to a week without direct access to one of life’s basics.

A REAL Cork sort of house, in a Cork setting — that’s Ard Naoimh Joseph, on the city’s Redemption Road.

THE “face” of the Special Olympics national fundraising drive has been named Cork person of the month for April.

CORK’S famous hurling nursery, Na Piarsaigh, celebrated its 60th anniversary last Friday.